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Garden State;
Andrew Largeman: You know, this necklace makes me think of this totally random memory of my mother. I was a little kid, and I was crying for one reason or another. And she was cradling me, rocking me back and forth, and I can just remember the silver balls rolling around. And there was like snot running down my nose. And she offered me her sleeve and told me to blow my nose into it. And I can remember, even as a little kid, thinking to myself, this is love… this is love.
Source: bluevein
This scene gives me chills, that’s how beautiful it is. Absolute favorite romance movie.
Before Sunrise.
“Loving someone and being loved- It means so much to me. I always make fun of it stuff, but isn’t everything we’re doing in life a way to be loved a little more?”
“It seems silly, like it would ruin my whole life. And it’s not just a fear of commitment or that I’m incapable of caring or loving… Because I am. It’s just that, if I’m totally honest with myself, I think I’d rather die knowing that I was really good at something, that I had excelled in some way, than I had just been in a nice, caring relationship.”
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Make them wonder why you’re still smiling.
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What defines a hipster romance movie
Okay followers, you may or may not be aware, but I love, love, love what I have established is the movie genre of hipster romances. I blog about them frequently. I would consider making it a full-time thing but unfortunately there isn’t enough of them to keep you satisfied. Now you may be wondering, what is this thing genre you call hipster romances, I have never heard of it. They are romance movies but they are not the cliche. It isn’t the fairytale. Sure, in some of them, the guy and the girl, they do end up together, but it isn’t in the same way that happens in all the typical ones. There is more to the hipster romance genre. Here are some of the rules/guidelines to what makes a hipster romance movie, though there are always exceptions.
- If the two protagonists meet in the film, one if not both don’t experience “love at first sight,” but at least one (most of the time, it is the man) of them believes that they have some sort of a connection. There is a spark, in one of their eyes. This dismisses the Hollywood stereotype of “love at first sight.” Also the fact that the man, in most but not all cases, is first to realize the connection breaks the mold that women are more romantic than guys, which Hollywood typically likes to portray. Example of this is Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt in (500) Days of Summer, and Felicity Jones in Like Crazy.
- There is a force that that is holding the characters from being with one another. It could be that one or both have another significant other, for example in Lost in Translation. Or it could be that one of the characters, in the majority of cases the female, doesn’t want to be tied down. They know that they are going to hurt the other person, either because they will get bored like in Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind or more recently Bellflower.
- The connection between the two is love, but not necessarily in love, nor a love of physical nature but of a deeper love. The Greeks believed in two kinds of loves, one of the physical nature, more so of lust. But then there was the higher regarded, more spiritual love, which was the love for the person’s mind. Hipster romances, for the most part, have a sense of a spiritual love between the characters. Through the time that they spend together, there is a profound moment of clarity that brings insight into their lives. For example, in the Irish hipster romance Once, the two characters who only know each other for a week or so, certainly love each other. They make beautiful music, their insight, that can only be from their spiritual love. Another example, well examples, are Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. The two characters, perfect strangers with no mutual friends, decide to get a coffee together and then to continue their conversation by an afternoon and night in Vienna, then nine years later meet up in Paris. They have conversations about God, feminism, love, parents, and about the human soul. Pretty deep stuff for a first meeting.
- The two characters, most of the time, do not end up together. Sorry to spoil the endings but that is part of what it makes it a hipster romance. For one reason or another, the two main characters have lost their connection. In some cases, the boredom by the one who predicted came true. In others, travels has pulled them apart. No matter the reason for the two of the characters to no longer to be one, they generally leave each other with fond memories of this lost love, no matter what kind of love (see rule 3) it is. The only notable exception to the fond memories part is Blue Valentine.
- The movie has to have a great selection in music. This is a MUST for all Hipster Romances. I will not say the genre the music has to be because the music has to be fitting for the movie. Music is part of film. It is a character in of itself. Sometimes one of the characters sings a song in a movie too, making it more hipster.
Well these are the five main rules of hipster romances. If you have suggestions for more rules or movies, feel free to send me a message. I would love to hear your insight on this genre of movies.
Now the list of hipster romances in my opinion.
- Away We Go
- Before Sunrise
- Before Sunset
- Bellflower
- Blue Valentine
- Elizabethtown
- Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind
- The Exploding Girl
- (500) Days of Summer
- Garden State
- In Search of the Midnight Kiss
- Juno (somewhat)
- Like Crazy
- Lost in Translation
- Once
- Serendipity (Mainstream Exception)
- Sliding Doors
